KNIFE, PAPER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- LETTER OPENER
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- PLASTIC
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041565
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- LETTER OPENER
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- PLASTIC
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 12.8
- Width
- 2.5
- Description
- CLEAR PLASTIC TAPERED BLADE WITH CIRCULAR MAGNIFYING GLASS AT END. GRADUATED SCALE IN METRIC IS RAISED ALONG ONE EDGE. TIP OF BLADE IS BROKEN OFF AND LENS OF MAGNIFYING GLASS IS CRACKED.
- Subjects
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- LETTER OPENED BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041565
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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